Archive for July 2006

In just twenty-four hours, Abbi and I will be on a plane bound for Bonaire. Oddly, I don’t feel like I deserve a vacation. Historically, I work myself into some sort of frenzied, anxious state, or — worse — make myself deathly ill before it occurs to me to take some time off to regroup.…

I had a small rooftop gathering last weekend to celebrate the start of summer. My friends Jeff and Kristan made an eleventh hour appearence. When I offered them a drink, Jeff opted for a beer, Kristan opted for water. I got Kristan a fresh glass, tossed in some ice cubes, and poured her some chilled…

I’m a bit dubious about Independence Day, especially these days. Bo Lozoff described the Bush Administration’s (or, as he calls them, “The Masters of Unsustainability”) careful and deliberate erosion of American (and global) civil liberties (wire tapping, bank records, Guantonimo, etc) with an age-old metaphor. “If you drop a frog into a pot of boiling…

I began this long holiday break alone thinking of it as a lost weekend. Very, quickly, though, I began to think of it as found. You’ll recall that I was supposed to be scuba diving in Bonaire by now. I’m not complaining. We’re going next week instead. But the sudden scheduling change left me with…